Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jump. Julius Fleischmann's big chestnut gelding, Irish Lad, threw his jockey, staggered on a little farther, fell dead. At the tenth jump Red Gold fell on his head and hurt himself fatally. Eric Atterbury, codesigner of the course, was thrown from Kilbairn and had concussion of the brain. They were more than half way round before Alligator, who had been running ninth, began to move ahead. Shrewd Charles Plumb Jr., a goodlooking young Long Island horse dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow...
...ignorant peasants, submerged in squalidity and often bewildered by the complete overthrow of the world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto, in one case, ranked religion with drunkeness, smoking and hooliganism...
...Mellen, Wise., Mrs. John Kunz, 46, was standing on a chair, fell off. was killed by a hairpin driven into her brain...
...normal breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...
...Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just...